When Septermber Ends...
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
The new video for Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is so bad.
The intro is almost 2 minutes long and had me rolling my eyes. They also did one of those "cuts" in the middle of the video to show more acting... I hate it when directors do that. Why do they do that? It ruins the momentum of the song. Anyways, the whole premise of the video is about 2 kids in love (the first 2 minutes is just them two saying how much they love each other and how they will never leave each other) and then guy signs up for the military without telling her... I spent the next 5 minutes of the video wondering how many times the editors went over the initial 2 minute scene and asking why in the hell it took 2 minutes to determine these two are in love... Anywyas, of course, they get into an argument... and he's like, "I did this for us!!!"... ok...
Then it moves into battle scenes in Iraq or some Arab country after the overplayed "sit down and shave your head for boot camp" scene. With movies out there like "Saving Private Ryan" and my favorite "Black Hawk Down"... why would a director even try to touch a battle scene and make it PG is beyond me. It sucks through and through.
I still can't believe Green Day went along with this. I suspect they got a handsome amount of money to produce this video... but even a generous amount of money to shoot a music video isn't anywhere close to the budget and resources a movie gets.
On the plus side... at least their touring guitarist is in this video. If you seen them live, you'll know important that second guitarist is to achieve their live sound. But I still liked their "American Idiot" video best. The way each character is taped at different speeds but panning and swooping the camera probably made for some tricky Algorithms to figure out.
The intro is almost 2 minutes long and had me rolling my eyes. They also did one of those "cuts" in the middle of the video to show more acting... I hate it when directors do that. Why do they do that? It ruins the momentum of the song. Anyways, the whole premise of the video is about 2 kids in love (the first 2 minutes is just them two saying how much they love each other and how they will never leave each other) and then guy signs up for the military without telling her... I spent the next 5 minutes of the video wondering how many times the editors went over the initial 2 minute scene and asking why in the hell it took 2 minutes to determine these two are in love... Anywyas, of course, they get into an argument... and he's like, "I did this for us!!!"... ok...
Then it moves into battle scenes in Iraq or some Arab country after the overplayed "sit down and shave your head for boot camp" scene. With movies out there like "Saving Private Ryan" and my favorite "Black Hawk Down"... why would a director even try to touch a battle scene and make it PG is beyond me. It sucks through and through.
I still can't believe Green Day went along with this. I suspect they got a handsome amount of money to produce this video... but even a generous amount of money to shoot a music video isn't anywhere close to the budget and resources a movie gets.
On the plus side... at least their touring guitarist is in this video. If you seen them live, you'll know important that second guitarist is to achieve their live sound. But I still liked their "American Idiot" video best. The way each character is taped at different speeds but panning and swooping the camera probably made for some tricky Algorithms to figure out.
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